Ferdinand III. (1608–1657). Friedenskaiser wider Willen. By Lothar Ho ¨belt. Graz: Ares Verlag. 2008. Pp. 488. Cloth E29.90.ISBN 3-902475-56-5.

摘要

Ho ¨belt is a specialist in modern Austrian history at the University of Viennanwith extensive publications in nineteenth- and twentieth-century politicalnhistory, including a recent study of Jo ¨ rg Haider. He also has published on thenmilitary history of the Thirty Years’ War. Ho ¨belt presents Ferdinand III as then“forgotten emperor” in the accounts of the rise of Habsburg Austria, caught between the historical reputations of his father, Ferdinand II, and his son,nLeopold I. In truth, this is first full biography of Ferdinand III in any language.